I sent the email below to the Redhat mailing list but haven't had any useful replies. Can someone tell me how to setup lftp to use the ftps protocol and how I can check for sure that it is using the ftps protocol?
I have been asked to setup a nightly download of files and I have to use ftps. It has to be ftps and not sftp as the place from where I download the files won't accept sftp connections - they told me it must be ftps. Now I can already download with an ftp script, but when this is done for real (quite soon!) then it has to be done securely. I am doing this on a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4. Can someone tell me where I can get ftps, or how to enable another piece of software to use the ftps protocol? (Looking about I see that lftp is already on the machine[as is sftp] and the man page for lftp says that it supports the ftps protocol if it is compiled with the openssl library) Hope someone can help here, Thanks in advance, Ross Ross Macintyre UICS - University Information & Computing Services Heriot Watt University Riccarton Campus Edinburgh, EH14 4AS Tel: 0131 451 3417 Email: [email protected] Paintings at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~raz/paintings -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278.
